Winter Soviet Moscow in PHOTOS by Boris Kosarev
The city covered with snow and falling snowflakes are some of the most inspiring images by this photographer. In his images, the capital appears very different: sometimes austere and frosty, sometimes sunny and soft.
A frosty day on the Red Square, with St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Lenin Mausoleum in vision, 1960
One of the Moscow Kremlin’s wall, 1957
Heavy snowfall, 1961
A child helping to clean the windscreen of ‘Dad’s car’, 1960s
Neskuchny Sad after a fresh snowfall, 1950
A foreign correspondent filming with the iconic MSU highrise in the background, 1970
Children doing a circle dance in a kindergarten, 1960s
A snow… hare, 1960s
A cross-country skier crossing a small bridge over a semi-frozen body of water, 1960s
Friends going on a stroll, 1960
People enjoying a temporary sunny thaw at Patriarch's Ponds, 1960
